Amazon Will Allow Opting Out of Ads on Kindle Fire for $15

[Markon101]

Or, you could just get a Nexus 7 and save your $15 and get real android instead of that piece of crap interface amazon has.

 

[wildkitten]

[citation][nom]Markon101[/nom]Or, you could just get a Nexus 7 and save your $15 and get real android instead of that piece of crap interface amazon has.[/citation]
Actually, you would pay $35 more. The 16GB Nexus 7 is $250 whereas the 16GB ad Kindle Fire is $199. Pay the extra $15 to remove the ads, you are still $35 cheaper than the Nexus 7. I would imagine that for a savings of $35/$50 dollars, people who don't like the Kindle's interface will likely root and put on a custom ROM.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]ahnilated[/nom]That is called extortion.[/citation]
You really don't understand the English language do you?
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Even with the $15 extra the price is very attractive, especially as books are not a guaranteed revenue stream, sure it's "illegal" but there are thousands of books available for gratis form "you know where", after that the hardware outlay just drops away to nothing after the first few books

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]Markon101[/nom]Or, you could just get a Nexus 7 and save your $15 and get real android instead of that piece of crap interface amazon has.[/citation]
See that right there, that's the sign of a fragmented OS, within a few years the rabid Google fanboys will be cannibalising each other rather than focussing on actual rivals like iOS or Windows, probably end up like the 400-ish Linux distros out there

 

[n1tr0]

As someone with an older Kindle "without ads" and a newer Kindle touch "with ads", I would definitely stick to the subsidized hardware model !

Not only are the ads unobtrusive, they're most often better looking than Amazon's regular lock screens (which even if you pay to remove the ads you can't change). It doesn't hurt that you can select what sort of ads you get and that they're tailored to location as well.

The embedded ads here on Tom's Hardware are a million times more obnoxious and I don't see that stopping any of you. I can barely move my mouse across the page here without a box or video popping up and interrupting the article I'm reading. By comparison a tasteful lockscreen ad and it's counterpart banner on the home screen are the very definition of classy.

That being said, while I will continue to buy Kindle e-readers, I won't buy a Kindle tablet. I wouldn't be on Tom's if I was a fan of locked down platforms. I like being able to tinker and customize my computing experience.

 

[wiyosaya]

Fee?? Ransom, I say. 🙁

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

How about I buy a Nexus 7 for that price that is already ad free and still get Amazon media.